Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 31

"Stop!" cried Legless; "we'll hide in the straw in thy room, and when the serpent comes flying in again, thou must cough and wake us."

Who acts: Legless, we, serpent, thou · What happens: stop, cry, hide, come, fly in, cough · To what, where: straw, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Legless, we, serpent, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Legless	Legless	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 hide	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 hide	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hide	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hide	aux
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 straw	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 straw	det
14	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hide	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 room	nmod:poss
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hide	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cough	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cough	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 comes	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 serpent	det
22	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 cough	advcl
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 comes	xcomp
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 flying	advmod
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 flying	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 cough	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 cough	aux
30	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wake	cc
32	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cough	conj
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 wake	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 cough	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 cough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	Legless					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hide in a quote	future	we		the straw		in thy room	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in straw=Location
4	come in a quote	present	the serpent					tree rules
5	fly in in a quote	gerund	the serpent not said here			again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cough in a quote	must	thou					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wake in a quote	infinitive	thou not said here	us				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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